Strona 1 Atlantis and the Atlanteans (The Emerald Tablets and Other Texts) Anna Zubkova, Mikhail Nikolenko, Maria Shtil, Larisa Vavulina, Vladimir Antonov Edited by Vladimir Antonov Translated from Russian by Mikhail Nikolenko 2008 Strona 2 ISBN 978-1-897510-33-9 Published in 2008 by New Atlanteans 657 Chemaushgon Road RR#2 Bancroft, Ontario K0L 1C0, Canada Printed by Lulu This book provides information about the spiritual life in Atlantis. It includes, in particular, excerpts from conversations with former Atlanteans, who worked and developed during their incarnations on that continent. The main value of the book is a description of the methodology of spiritual development. This book is intended primarily for those who seek the way to achieving the spiritual Perfection. © Vladimir Antonov, 2008. Strona 3 Contents Preface............................................................................................................. 5 The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-the-Atlantean...................... 6 Hermes Trismegistus — The Emerald Tablet.................... 14 From Conversations with Divine Teachers............................ 16 Adler................................................................................................................ 16 Thoth-the-Atlantean.................................................................................. 29 Cairo................................................................................................................. 39 Etey.................................................................................................................... 44 Nikifor............................................................................................................. 46 Odin.................................................................................................................. 52 Bibliography............................................................................................... 59 3 Strona 4 www.atlantis-and-atlanteans.org www.swami-center.org 4 Strona 5 Preface “I began preaching to people the beauty of religion and knowledge. “O people, men born on the Earth, who indulge in drunkenness, sleep, and the ignorance of God! Sober up, cease your surfeit, awake from your dullness! “Why do you give up yourselves to death while you have power to partake of immortality? “Depart from the dark path, be partakers of immor- tality, abandon forever your vices! “Nowhere but in God can you find good!” (From Hermes’1 address to the Egyptians) Atlantis was an archipelago consisting of two large islands situated in the Atlantic Ocean near the Mediter- ranean Sea. There existed a highly developed civiliza- tion of the Atlanteans. The most important point about this civilization is that it possessed the true religious- philosophical knowledge, which allowed many people to advance quickly in their development — up to the Divine level — and accomplish thus their personal hu- man evolution. However, with time Atlantis’ spiritual culture de- graded, and as a result the power in the country was tak- en over by aggressive people, who preferred black mag- ic and domination over others rather than the principle of the true spiritual development. Then God made the islands of Atlantis sink into the ocean. 1 Hermes Trismegistus is the name of Thoth-the-Atlantean in His next incarnation in Egypt. 5 Strona 6 But the higher spiritual knowledge was preserved by some Atlanteans, Who achieved Divinity. They brought it into Egypt and other countries, where this knowledge existed for some time providing a basis for the local spiri- tual culture. The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-the-Atlantean2 In the Emerald Tablets, Thoth-the-Atlantean ex- plains the reason for the destruction of Atlantis: confiden- tial knowledge was imparted to unworthy people and the latter began using it for evil purposes. They adopted also bloody sacrifices — and this resulted in numerous incar- nations of hellish beings among people. When the destruction of Atlantis happened (two islands submerged into the ocean one after another ac- cording to the Divine Will), Thoth-the-Atlantean moved to Egypt (Khem) with a group of other Divine Atlante- ans. The Primordial3 advised Thoth thus: “Go forth as a Teacher of men! Go forth preserving the records (with Teachings) until in time the Light grows among men! “Light4 shall You be all through the ages, hidden yet found by enlightened men. 2 This chapter presents a selection of excerpts (compiled and edited by Dr.V.Antonov) from the book of Divine Thoth-the- Atlantean discovered by Dr.M.Doreal in his expedition to the pyramids in South America. 3 The Primordial Consciousness, the Creator, God-the-Fa­ ther, Jehovah, Allah, Tao, Svarog, and other names used in dif- ferent languages — all these are synonyms. 4 Light is not a symbol but a real state of the Divine Con­ sciousness. 6 Strona 7 “For working on all the Earth, give We You power, free You to give it to others or take it away.” And then Thoth worked as a Representative of the Primordial. … Thoth relates that He went the entire Path to Mer- gence with the Primordial. He writes that anyone can traverse this Path. The Path necessarily contains obsta- cles, which create difficulties for travelers: these difficul- ties prevent weak, ethically unworthy, or intellectually immature people from going further. “Go! But do not take with you the unwise, insincere, weak!” says Thoth. Thoth gives basic recommendations for initial har- monization of the chakra system. For fulfilling just these recommendations He promises health and longevity.5 On the higher stages of meditative practices (i.e. on the stage of Buddhi Yoga), one has to dive with the con- sciousness into the Depths of the multidimensional space and cognize there “star worlds” and the Light of the Great Fire on the Path to the Abode of the Primordial6. There are also other spatial dimensions, which are “vacant to all seeming, yet hidden within them are the keys…”7 Thoth also explains one of the higher meditations — the Temple and its particular variation — the Pyra- mid. 5 See information about the chakras and methods of work- ing with them in [2]. 6 The Primordial Consciousness; synonyms: the Creator, God-the-Father, Jehovah, Allah, Tao, Svarog and other terms in different languages. 7 These “spaces” are really existing spatial dimensions (pla­ nes, eons, lokas) that can be cognized by a developed con­ sciousness. They are represented on the scheme for studying the structure of the Absolute published in [2]. 7 Strona 8 About the history of His own spiritual ascent Thoth says the following: “Once in a time long forgotten, I, Thoth, opened the doorway, penetrated into other spaces and learned of the secrets concealed. “Often did I journey down the dark pathway unto the space where the Light ever glows. “Long then dwelt I in the Temple of the Primordial until at last I was One with the Light.” Later Thoth incarnated again in Egypt as Hermes Trismegistus (Thrice-born)8. *** Thoth gives the following directions to spiritual seekers: Preserve and keep the command of the Primor- dial One: Look in your life for disorder and get rid of it! Bal- ance and order your life! Quell all the chaos of emotions and you shall have harmony in life.9 Conquer by silence the bondage of words. Keep ever your eyes on the Light! Surely when you deserve it, you shall be one with your Master! And surely then you shall be one with the All 10! 8 See explanation in the Gospel of Philip in [1]. 9 There has to remain only the emotions of love on the background of inner quietness — hesychia. 10 By All or Whole here and further in the text Thoth means God in the aspect of Absolute. 8 Strona 9 Know My commandments! Keep them and fulfill them, and I will be with you, helping and guiding you into the Light! Out of the darkness shall you rise upward, one with the Light! Man has to strive to become the “Divine Sun”11. Follow this Path and you shall be One with the All! Light comes only to those who strive. Hard is the Pathway that takes to the Wisdom; hard is the Pathway that takes to the Light. Many stones shall you find in your pathway, many mountains you shall climb towards the Light. Man, know that always beside you walk the Mes- sengers of Light. Open to all is Their Pathway, to all who are ready to walk into the Light! Suns are They, Messengers of Light to shine among men. Like man are They and yet are unlike. Know that many dark shadows shall fall on your light12 striving to quench with the shadows of darkness the light of the soul that strives to be free. Many the pitfalls that lie on this Way. Seek ever to gain Greater Wisdom! Cognize — you shall know the Light! Light is eternal and darkness is fleeting. Seek ever, O man, for the Light! Know ever that as Light fills your being, darkness for you shall soon disappear! Open the soul to the Messengers of Light! Let Them enter and fill you with Light! Keep ever your face to this Goal! 11 This is one of the final meditations on the spiritual Path. 12 Light appearing in the spiritual heart when a soul be- gins to walk the spiritual Path. 9 Strona 10 … Open the soul, O man, to the cosmos and let it “flow” through you as one with the soul!13 Man’s evolution consists in the process of chang- ing to forms that are not of this world. Grows he in time to the formless — to live on a higher plane. Know that you must become formless before you can be one with the Light. Listen, O man, to My voice, telling of pathways to Light, showing the way of attainment: how you shall be- come one with the Light: Search first the mysteries of the Earth’s Heart! Seek the Flame14 of the Living Earth! Bathe in the glare of this Flame! Know, O man, you are complex, a being of matter and of Fire. Let your Flame15 shine out brightly! Be you only the Flame! Seek ever more Wisdom! Find it in the Heart of the Flame! Know that only by your striving can Light pour into you! Only the one, who of Light has the fullest, can hope to pass by the guards of the Way, who prevent unworthy people from entering it. You shall cognize yourself as Light and make your- self ready to pass on the Way. 13 This can be achieved only by means of work with the spiritual heart. 14 Flame or Divine Fire is one of the states of the Divine Con­sciousness. This is also described in the Teachings of Agni Yoga. 15 This statement concerns the Atmic component of the hu- man multidimensional organism. On the Path of the spiri­tual growth man has to cognize himself as Atman and then to merge with the Paramatman. Two latter concepts are denoted also as Higher Self. 10 Strona 11 Wisdom is hidden in darkness. When shining with Soul-Flame, find you the Wisdom, then shall you be born again as Light, and then shall you become the “Divine Sun”.16 Grow into One with the Light! Be a channel of Di- vine Principles to the world of men! Seek, O man, to find the great Pathway that lets in to eternal Life — through the image of the “Divine Sun”! … Know, O man, you are only a soul! The body is nothing! The soul is everything! Let not your body be a fetter! Cast off the darkness and travel in Light! Learn to cast off your body, O man, and be free from it!17 Become the true Light and unite then with the Great Light!18 Know that throughout space the eternal and infi- nite Consciousness exists. Though from superficial knowl- edge It is hidden, yet still forever exists. The key to these Higher worlds is within you; it can be found only within.19 Open the gateway within you, and surely you, too, shall live the true life! … Man, you think that you live… but know that your former life can bring you only to death. For as long as you are bound to your body, no true life exists for 16 This constitutes the second and third Births. 17 This can be realized correctly only through the work on developing oneself as a spiritual heart. If one tries to perform it in other way, such a person comes to coarse spatial dimen- sions. How to “open” and develop the spiritual heart is shown and explained in detail in our video film Spiritual Heart and in our other films and books. 18 I.e., Atman, which is one with Paramatman. 19 Within the developed spiritual heart. 11 Strona 12 you! Only the soul which is free from the material world has life which is a really true life! All else is only a bond- age, a fetter from which to be free! Think not that man is born for the earthly! Though born on the Earth, man is a light-like spirit! Yet, without true knowledge man can never become free! … Darkness surrounds the souls seeking to be born in Light. Darkness fetters souls… Only the one who is seeking may ever hope for Freedom! Let you be the “Divine Sun” of the Great Light! Ful- fill this and you shall be free! The Great Light that fills all the cosmos is willing to help you, O man! Make you of your body a torch of Light that shall shine among men! … Hear and understand: the Flame is the source of all things; all things are its manifestation! Seek to be One with the “Divine Sun”! Hold your thought on uniting the Light with your human body. Light is the Source of all the life; for without the Great Light nothing can ever exist! Know, Light is the basis of all formed matter. Know, O man, that all space is filled by worlds with- in worlds. Deep beneath the image of the Pyramid lies My sec­ret. Seek and find it in the Pyramid I built. Follow this key I left for you. Seek and the door- way to the true Life shall be yours! Seek in My Pyramid deep beneath it, and in the Wall.20 20 This concerns the higher stages of meditative practice. 12 Strona 13 Know that it is in the Pyramid I built that you shall find the secret way into the true Life. … Seek and find there That which I have hidden! There shall you find the “underground entrance” to the secrets hidden before you were men. Know We that of all, nothing else matters except the growth one can gain with the soul. Know We the flesh is fleeting. The things men count great are nothing to Us. The things We expect from you are not of your bodies but are only the perfected state of the souls. When you can learn that nothing but progress of the soul can count in the end, then truly you are free from all bondage, free to work in accordance with your predestination! Know, O man, you are to aim at Perfection, for only thus can you attain to the Goal! Know that the future is never in fixation but fol- lows man’s free will! Man can only “read the future” through the causes that bring the effects in destinies. Know that your body when in perfect balance may never be touched by the finger of death! Aye, even “ac- cidents” may only approach when you abandon your predestination! When you are in harmony with your predestination, you shall live on in time and not taste of death. … Know you not that in the Earth’s Heart is the source of harmony of all things that exist and have been on its face? By the soul you are connected with the Earth’s Heart, and by your flesh — with the matter of Earth. When you have learned to maintain harmony in yourself, then shall you draw on from the harmony of the Earth’s Heart. Exist then shall you while Earth is existing, changing in form, only when Earth, too, shall 13 Strona 14 change: tasting not of death, but one with this planet, living in your body till all pass away. … Three are the qualities of God in His Light-Home21: Infinite Power, Infinite Wisdom, Infinite Love. Three are the powers given to spiritual Masters: to transmute evil, to assist good, to use discrimination22. Three are the things They manifest: Power, Wisdom, and Love. Three are the Manifestations of Spirit creating all things: Divine Love possessing the perfect knowledge, Divine Wisdom knowing all possible means of helping living beings in their development, Divine Power which is possessed by the Primordial Consciousness Whose es- sence is Divine Love and Wisdom. Darkness and Light are both of one nature, diffe­ rent only in seeming, for each arose from one Source. Darkness is chaos. Light is Divine Harmony. Darkness transmuted is Light. This, My children, is your purpose in being: trans- mutation of darkness into Light! Hermes Trismegistus — The Emerald Tablet I say here only truth and nothing else! That which is below is similar to that which is above. And that which is above is similar to that which is be- low. One has to know this in order to gain the cognition of the marvelous Primordial One!23 21 The Abode of the Creator. 22 Discrimination of the qualities of souls and determina- tion of the best conditions for their development. 23 This concerns one particular meditation of Buddhi Yoga 14 Strona 15 Everything material came into existence by the in- tent of the Primordial One. All material objects became manifest through densification of the energy by the Pri- mordial One. The Sun24 is the Father of the manifested world; the “lunar”25 is its mother. The Holy Spirit “brings up” developing souls; the Earth nurtures them. The Father of all the development in the entire universe is present always and everywhere. His Power is the Supreme Power! It is supreme to everything else! And It is manifested on the Earth — in Its Omnipotence! Thus you should divide: the earthly — and the Fi- ery26, the coarse — and the subtle! Act, at that, with great caution, awe, and understanding! Become the Subtlest Fire — and cognize the Hea­ ven­ly! Thus you achieve the Mergence. Then come back to the Earth — and you will perceive the Subtlest and will have power to transform effectively the imperfect. This will mean that you have achieved the glory of Mergence with the Primordial One and rid yourself of the darkness of ignorance. The Power of the Primordial One is present beneath everything: beneath both the subtlest and the coarse — and controls them. It is in this way that the Creation that allows achieving full Mergence with the Primordial Consciousness. 24 “Divine Sun”, the “Sun of God”. Again this concerns one of the highest meditations of the Buddhi Yoga. 25 By “lunar” Hermes calls the substance of the “trans-mir- ror” eons — protoprakriti and protopurusha. From the latter, matter and souls are formed (see [2]). 26 Fiery Manifestations of the Creator. 15 Strona 16 exists. And thanks to this marvelous connectedness of Ev- erything the development goes on. This is why My name is Hermes Thriceborn: for I act in all three planes of existence27 and possess the wis- dom of the entire universe! Thus I have said everything I wanted to say about the doing of the Sun. From Conversations with Divine Teachers Adler Once in autumn, Pastor Larry and Freddy led us to a meeting with another Representative of the Creator — Divine Adler. We went for a long time along a trail in a pine forest suffused with morning mist and songs of birds. “Adler is the Greatest Teacher. He has been present on the Earth always. You are going to interview Him,” They said. Soon we came to a place where a giant Mahadou- ble of Adler — hundreds of meters in size — stood over the forest. We built a fire, warmed ourselves, drank some coffee with sandwiches, rested a little, and then asked Adler to tell about Himself. He began the narration: “I never embodied on the Earth with the purpose of learning for God. I came there being already Divine. 27 In the eons of the Creator, the Holy Spirit, and in the world of matter. 16 Strona 17 “For the first time, I appeared in a material body on this planet about at the same time as Ushastik de- scribed28, just a little later than He did. “Later on, the main oasis of spiritual culture began to form in the Western Mediterranean.” “Was it Atlantis?” “Yes. It was the area where the Mediterranean sea is connected with the ocean. Though the form of the coast is completely different now. “Atlantis was My work: from the very beginning till the end I created the spiritual culture of Atlantis. From there it moved partly to Egypt. “I took with Me worthy people and led them into Myself — an incarnation after incarnation, a wave after wave. Thus I embodied there several times. “In the middle ages, I worked in Europe, living in one body from the 14th to the 18th century. I could ap- pear and disappear, but always it was one and the same body of Mine.” “Was it You who guided Napoleon?” “Yes.” “Why did he not manage to liberate Russia from inquisition?” “The epic work of Napoleon reached a deadlock when he proclaimed himself a king on the Earth, forget- ting about the main role of God. There must be Theo­cracy rather than kingocracy — then everything will be fine!” “His war against Russia was a mistake?” “He made a mistake earlier: when he began to feel himself a king. He had to feel himself a God’s messenger.” 28 See [1]. 17 Strona 18 “Did he feel himself a king from the very begin- ning?” “In the beginning, he felt himself a prophet and ful- filled My Will — the Will of the Creator. “… My last incarnation was in the Netherlands.” “Were You a king?” “No, but I was at the palace. I took on Myself the role of a counselor, but not in the narrow meaning of this word, not as a post: I was a confidant of the monarch. “The history tells about ‘immortal’ people, i.e. those possessing immortal bodies…” “Saint Germain?” “No, this is a legend. But I really lived among peo- ple for several centuries in one body.” “Are You incarnate at present?” “No.” … Adler shows His appearance at the time when He was incarnate: “In this appearance I came to the Netherlands. “In the Netherlands at present there are sprouts of spirituality. This is why I direct your attention there. You have to spread the information about Me in this country. In the Netherlands there is a growing generation of prom- ising people; they are about 200 persons — young, brave, strong. Soon they will learn about you with My help. “… And now I am going to tell you a little more of My history… One cannot find this information in the historical scriptures or on the Internet… “Yes, there are legends about the ‘immortals’ in South India, in China, in other countries of South-East Asia, and on the American continent. They were Divine 18 Strona 19 Teachers — the Supervisors of the development of the human civilization. They come to the planet in flesh when it is necessary to correct the direction of the development of souls on the Earth — not the course of events but the direction of the evolution of souls. “I never took on Myself the role of a prophet or Messiah, who preach to crowds of people. But wherev- er I came to, in the midst of chaos, darkness, and igno- rance, — there appeared the first sparks of light, the first ideas of good, the first thoughts about freedom… “In this way I would appear and disappear, with- out attracting much attention to Myself, being a Bound- less Consciousness connected with the body which, like a lens, transmitted to the material plane the ideas and thoughts more effectively than they can be transmitted from the non-incarnate state. These ideas fell like rain- drops on the dry soil… and it took a long time for the first shoots to appear… “Do you want to participate in such work?” “What does one need for this?” “One needs to treat the body with the energies of the Creator! One needs the state of Continuum from the Creator. And one needs to achieve the state described by Jesus: ‘Every cell of My body became conscious…’ “This requires that the awareness of oneself in the Ocean of the Creator become a constant, unchanging state, and the energies of the material body be replaced with the Divine Energies. “Then one gains a possibility to live in the material body with the full awareness of God. The body serves then as a link between the Creator and His Creation. It becomes similar to a lens or a slit focusing the Ray of 19 Strona 20 the Divine Consciousness, Divine Energy — onto the material plane. “… My work in the medieval Europe in the 14th to the 18th centuries allowed raising slowly the wave of the Renaissance. “… Very slowly love and freedom ripen in the souls of people. For centuries the drops of Divine Light fell into darkness as if disappearing with no result…, but they produced eventually sprouts… “It was Me who initiated the wave of Lutheranism, Reformation in Europe: i.e. the ideas about the possibil- ity for man to communicate with God directly, without intermediates, without rituals… France, Germany, the Netherlands… This process was completed with the liberating wave of Napoleon, which washed out almost completely the filth of the inquisition from the Earth. “The evolution of souls is a slow, gradual process. It is impossible to destroy in an instant the slavery of souls unable to comprehend the ideas of love and free- dom. We have told you already about this work of the Divine Teachers; it was described by Vysotin, Rossi, Ba- baji. One does not need an eternal body for this… Ev- eryone of Us performs a part of this work… “The Representatives of the Father: Jesus, Krish- na were prominent figures proclaiming the Truth from God… As for Me, I was unnoticed — like an invisible brush touching the canvas. But the traces left by this brush remained in the history of souls. With My physi- cal body I penetrated to and fro like a needle that makes stitches with a thread of Divine Light, weaving the Ray of God into the picture of the material plane.” “Will You tell us the history of Your lives in more detail?” 20